INCLUDES A READING GUIDEAfter years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical
University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an
impulsive affair with a student. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to
yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter
Lucy's isolated smallholding.
INCLUDES A READING GUIDEAfter years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical
University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an
impulsive affair with a student. Willing to admit his guilt, but refusing to
yield to pressure to repent publicly, he resigns and retreats to his daughter
Lucy's isolated smallholding.